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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3556379, member: 80783&quot;]I bought this coin, described as a tooled AE As by London Ancient Coins, as a cheap placeholder for a Sestertius of Salonina because I liked the portrait and could not find a better bronze of that empress for my portrait gallery. Only afterwards I discovered that there are no middle bronzes of Salonina with Pudicitia standing published anywhere:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945327[/ATTACH]</p><p>I was positively surprised when my new arrival turned out to be neither tooled (just smoothing in the fields, according to David Sear), nor an As, but&nbsp; was identified (thanks to the help of Curtis Clay) as the second known specimen of a Sestertius type only recently dicovered (Göbl 490y) from last days of the production of regular bronze currency from the Rome mint, from an obverse die also used to strike Medallions (Three Monetae reverse, now in the Medici Collection / Florence National Archeological Museum).</p><p><br /></p><p>The previously unique other Sestertius was sold at a Gemini Auction for ten times of what I paid for mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945325[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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